It's the second last day of the school holiday. My entire holiday was mainly spent sleeping, eating, playing squash, tennis, swimming etc with parents, sometimes with Jean. Hmm what else. Oh, homework, preparation for church activities, playing, shooping for violin and piano, violin practice, church, meetings.. December was quite relaxing cus my parents were at home most of the time. Mom doesnt have to work in the holiday cus since she is working at SBC (bible college), so she's on holiday too. Dad, frantically taking leave.
Yesterday's yesterday was spent mainly playing. Woke up around 10am and then went for a swim with my parents. Jean doesn't usually wake up till 1 or 2pm. Swam my usual 20+ laps because I only bother counting till 20, the rest of the time, I just swim back and forth with dad while waiting for mom to complete her swim. Relaxed a bit when everyone was done, then went up. Then we finally went out for high tea at lao bei jing when Jean woke up. Then, walked around and shopped before going home. Dad decided to take Jean and I out cycling. Mom cannot cycle and doesnt ever want to, so she went jogging. We cylcled around the thomson, amk, bishan area. When we reached yio chu kang road, I just realised it looked familiar (near jy's house). The we went cycling around lower pierce reservoire. Upper pierce is the challenging one with ups and downs. I mean, very up and very down. In fact, everywhere is filled with ups and downs. If you go up, you have to go down. And dad managed to queeze one of his life lessons into this. Work hard (ups) and you will be rewarded (downs). Jean and I nodded our heads in agreement. Then his physics brain suddenly activated. So a few seconds later, he added, "That's unless you have a motor...". We went to buy back dinner around Bishan North, then cycled home. And then I did violin practice at night. After that, went to play with Jean. She played piano, I did violin. It was quite fun just "jamming". We played till around midnight. But so far no complaints from neighbours yet. Maybe they understand it's the holidays now.
Yesterday, was another normal holi day. My parents went to salvation army to meet their new batch of Chinese students. I don't remember what I did. Oh I remember now. I remember I read a book. Tuesdays with Morrie. Since it was a present, I had to read it. Then finished up Musicophillia. And finished playing the whole career mode of Need for Speed Carbon in an hour. I think I am addicted to Car jack Streets (it's the grand theft auto 4 version for handphone). Earned about $70k already, but I the target is 1 million. I don't know what to do. Either I delete the game or I die next year cus it's played in real time. It's going to eat up a lot of my time.
Moving on, I shall test my memory. 2008, as far as I can remember:
Jan:
- start of school
- started my job in TF comm as logistics/publicity
- xjls passed away
Feb:
- CNY (ok I think I will ignore all holidays though they were something I looked forward to)
March:
Err... I really can't remember
- I think, my great grandmother pased away
- Oh, Polka
April:
Cannot..
May:
10: cousin shao en turned 1
11: my birthday
- nai2's birthday
- violining in SBC, when Moody Bible Institute choir arrived in Sg, had the worship thing. they had their choir and hand bell performance
June:
- holiday
- church retreat
- cca during holiday? I have no idea why I remembered that
- holiday trip wth family to Da Nang, Vietnam
July:
err... school started again
- violin exam
August:
- 08/08/08: cousin Ashlyn was born
- National day (oh ya, no holidays allowed, but nvm), aka church family day. forgot where we went, but it was fun
- Cantabile concert (strings)
- ms tan left
- Got to know ck terrorist and joycelyn, police
September:
- Ye2's birthday
- start of EOY
October:
- Jerome turned 4
- Continuation of EOY
- Boring post exam activities
November:
- Head start
- holiday trip with family to Tokyo
14, 15,17: uncle Edwin (dad's younger bro), Jean's and Dad's birhtday
29: Jensen turned 10 (which means I'm getting old)
December:
- Mom's birthday
- Still have cca
- Christmas thing at church
- Christmas dinner with family and extended
- grandparents, jeansen, jeome and their parents off to Hokaido for holiday
- Preparation for watchnight service later today
I noticed I start remembering more towards the late part of 2008. A sign of ageing maybe. Later today, watchnight service. Got to go do violin practice now. Have to be in church by 4.30pm for dry run. Timothy fellowship is in charge of the service this year. Jean and I in charge of TF ppt, countdown, prayer etc. The funny thing is, my whole family is working on ppts for the same event. Dad - Chinese ministry (students). Mom- Sunday School. Jean and I- TF.
The End for 2008. I don't think I'll have a lot of time to post when school starts again. I don't want the holiday to be over. Not because I want to post..
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